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. The 1st Zen Patriarch in China, Master Bodhidharma, is reputed to have described Zen this way … A special transmission outside the scriptures; Not dependent upon words and letters; Directly pointing to the human mind Seeing into one’s own nature and Buddhahood The series of sittings on the theme of the ‘Four Noble Truths’…

The ‘Precepts‘ are at the heart of our Practice. Not hard and fast laws or ‘Commandments‘ from heaven, each is an arrow pointing out a good path. All basically come down to this … Seek, as you can, not to do harm … and to live in a way healthful and helpful to yourself and…

Today, the ‘secret of secrets’at the heart of Zazenis revealed! (I don’t know why they look closed … just my long and lovely eye lashes … but my eyes are 2/3rds open and looking downward at 45 degrees during Zazen) .Press on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR…

The Buddha is quoted in the Kalamas Sutra: Do not put faith in traditions, even though they have been acceptedfor long generations and in many countries. Do not believe a thingbecause many repeat it. Do not accept a thing on the authority of oneor another of the sages of old, nor on the ground of…
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